Taylor the toast of England after her vintage performance

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FOUR O’CLOCK on a Monday afternoon sounds like a strange time to order a few magnums of champagne, but it was the very least that Claire Taylor’s father could do high up in the Grandstand, having just watched his 30-year-old daughter play one of the greatest innings in women’s one-day international history.

The Berkshire batsman’s unbeaten 156 from 151 balls was the first century scored at Lord’s by an Englishwoman — Lisa Keightley, of Australia, is the only other to have achieved the landmark — was Taylor’s career-best in this